{"id":389289,"date":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","date_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-apply-a-stress-as-an-initial-load-state\/"},"modified":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T14:44:56","slug":"how-to-apply-a-stress-as-an-initial-load-state","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-apply-a-stress-as-an-initial-load-state\/","title":{"rendered":"How to apply a stress as an initial load state ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

<p>Hello,<\/p><p>I’m trying to apply nodal constraints as loading on a finite element mesh. Is this possible? I’m currently simulating a mesh (force + fixed nodes) and I’m retrieving the final constraints with the inistate,write<\/strong> command. <\/p><p>On another simulation, I try to apply this constraint as a pre-stress with the inistate,read<\/strong> command (with the same boundary conditions but replacing the force of the first simulation by the pre-stress, which is the final constraint of the previous simulation). I’d like to find that the deformed geometry of the 1st simulation is the same as the geometry simulated with the pre-stress, but this is not the case. How can I do this? <\/p><p>My final objective is to apply this stress as a loading on another mesh, with the same topology (node and element numbers) but a different geometry.<\/p><p>Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you very much.<\/p><p>Charlotte.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-389289","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-apdl"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t